Coal Loader Photos
Loader on the C&O near Prince, WV in 1969
-Donald Haskel photo
These are in no particular order right now, perhaps when I get some more I'll organize them a little better. There's nothing here that you won't already find on other pages; it's just a way to get them all together for those of you who love the places where coal trains begin.
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 Blue Diamond Coal Company loader on the CSX's Haysi Branch, VA (ex-Clinchfield), May 2007 -John Wilkes |  Neece Creek flood loader on the CSX (ex-Clinchfield) Nora Branch, KY, May 2007 -John Wilkess |  Neece Creek loader on the CSX (ex-Clinchfield) Nora Branch, KY, May 2007 -John Wilkes |
 ST&I loader at Elkhorn City, KY on the CSX (former Clinchfield), May 2007 -John Wilkes |  Bell County Coal Company flood loader on the CSX/NS near Middlesboro, KY, May 2007 -John Wilkes |  Bell County Coal Company single-car loader near Middlesboro, KY, May 2007 -John Wilkes |
 The next several shots are of ICG's prep plant and Mine #1 flood loader on the CSX at Raven, KY on the former C&O, May 2007 -John Wilkes |  Raven, KY, May 2007 -John Wilkes | Raven, KY, May 2007 -John Wilkes |
 Raven, KY, May 2007 -John Wilkes |  Raven, KY, May 2007 -John Wilkes |  Raven, KY, May 2007 -John Wilkes |
These handful of shots are of the Sunny Knott Coal Company loader at Lackey, KY on the CSX (former C&O), May 2007 -John Wilkes | 
Loader at Lackey, KY, May 2007 -John Wilkes | 
Loader at Lackey, KY, May 2007 -John Wilkes |
Loader at Lackey, KY, May 2007 -John Wilkes |  Kentucky Oak Mining's flood loader at Vicco, KY on the CSX's former L&N EK Division, May 2007 -John Wilkes |  National Energy Resources flood loader, Resource, KY, June 1989 -John Wilkes |
 National Energy Resources flood loader, Resource, KY, June 1989 -John Wilkes |  Unique loader at Schlesser Coal Yard, Tacoma, VA, May 1981 -John Wilkes |  The next several shots show the Powell Mountain Coal Company flood loader at Bonny Blue, VA on the St. Charles Branch which was jointly served by the NS and CSX (formerly Southern and L&N), May 2007 -John Wilkes |
 Flood loader at Bonny Blue, VA, May 2007 -John Wilkes |  Flood loader at Bonny Blue, VA, May 2007 -John Wilkes |  Flood loader at Bonny Blue, VA, May 2007 -John Wilkes |
 Flood loader at Bonny Blue, VA, May 2007 -John Wilkes |  Red River Coal company's Steer Branch flood loader near Dixiana, VA, May 2007 -John Wilkes |  Briceville Coal Company's loader at Briceville, TN, northwest of Knoxville, May 2007 -John Wilkes |
 Loader at Briceville, TN, May 2007 -John Wilkes |
 NW SD45s 1762 and 1782 sandwich C30-7 8024 eastbound at Looney's Creek, VA with the Dismal #1 Mine Run and 163 empties, 14 Nov 1981 -Everett Young |
 Clinchfield Coal Company's Moss No. 3 preparation plant at Clinchfield, VA on the Dumps Creek Branch near Carbo, 7 Sep 1984 -Everett Young |
 AECO unit train loadout at Typo, KY, 18 Aug 2008 -Donald Dunn |
 An empty Detroit Edison unit train rolls south on the Monongahela Railway. The rusted tipple is part of the idled Republic Steel mine operations in Fredericktown, PA 8 Oct 1991 -Ed Wolfe |
 Bluegrass 3 loader on the Davis Spur just south of Hazard, KY in the spring of 2005 or 2006 -Donald Dunn |
 This Island Creek coal facility near Prince, WV on the C&O served a tunnel mine, a shaft mine and a strip mine and generated 50 or more loads a day, Jun 1969 -Donald Haskel |
  Unit train loadout on the old L&N Cumberland Valley mainline just north of Harlan, KY, 26 Dec 2006 -Todd Parrott |
 CSX flood loader at Ada, KY on the former L&N, 26 Dec 2006 -Todd Parrott |
  Abandoned tipple on the ex-B&O near Rockwood, PA, 2005 -Travis Brant |
  More photos of tipple near Rockwood, PA, 2005 -Travis Brant |
  McVicker tipple and switcher at Levisa Jct, KY on the old C&O, May 2007 -Eric Miller |
 Cumberland Collieries loader in East Norton, VA, the middle track is the NS main to Bluefield, 2005-Eric Miller |
 Compact truck-dump loader in the wye at Norton, VA, 2005-Eric Miller |
 Blackwood No.1 on the ex-Interstate RR mainline, Blackwood, VA, Jan 28th, 2006-Eric Miller |
 Tierney, WV circa 1980-Bob Slavy |
 Democrat, KY 8/84 -Stuart Thayer |
 Stoker, KY, Aug, 1984-Stuart Thayer |
 Southeast Coal Company prep plant at Calla, KY. 7/86- Stuart Thayer photo |
 Shamrock Coal Company loader at Clover, KY. 5/1/87- Stuart Thayer photo |
 Toms Creek, VA 5/25/98-Dan Bourque |
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